Re: Sling and Security

2013-03-07 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 12:09 PM, Angela Schreiber wrote: > ...b) the script execution: that's obviously related to the former with > one additional twist. everyone that can create a script may not only > become admin in sling but also gets file system access That's "anyone who can write a scr

Re: Sling and Security

2013-03-07 Thread Angela Schreiber
hi carsten and ian thanks for the clarification. feel asserted that we will report any vulnerabilities to the sling-security list as we detect them. what i would love to discuss on the list in general are ways or possibilities on how we could prevent the strength and flexibility of sling to turn

Re: Sling and Security (was: Re: ResourceAccessGate (SLING-2698))

2013-03-07 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 12:55 AM, Ian Boston wrote: > ...If there are other areas where its possible, with ease to create > critical security issues, then I think we must address those > immediately. > > Please share, ideally on list. > If you think its not for public list consumption please send a

Re: Sling and Security (was: Re: ResourceAccessGate (SLING-2698))

2013-03-06 Thread Carsten Ziegeler
Hi Angela, you're definitely missinterpreting my sentences - I care, but even more important the Sling community cares a lot about security. Sure, we can always do better - but it's important that we work together as a community on all aspects of Sling - security is of course an important part he

Re: Sling and Security (was: Re: ResourceAccessGate (SLING-2698))

2013-03-06 Thread Ian Boston
On 7 March 2013 04:31, Angela Schreiber wrote: > hi carsten > >> Finally, although this feature is optional and has no impact if not >> used, there are valid concerns that this might be easily abused. But >> we can't prevent anyone from abusing stuff and we already have various >> places where peo

Sling and Security (was: Re: ResourceAccessGate (SLING-2698))

2013-03-06 Thread Angela Schreiber
hi carsten Finally, although this feature is optional and has no impact if not used, there are valid concerns that this might be easily abused. But we can't prevent anyone from abusing stuff and we already have various places where people do funny things. just to make it very clear: it's not o